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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 13, 2026Published at 2:28 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic's Own Scenario Model Puts Cognitive Unemployment at 17.9 Percent in Its Fastest-Growth Case
The explorer published by the company's economics team shows unemployment staying inside historical ranges in moderate scenarios, and knowledge-worker wages falling more than 10 percent only when growth exceeds anything on record.
Anthropic's economics team published Scenarios for our Economic Future, an interactive explorer built on a technical report, Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI, by economist Korinek and coauthors. It projects labor-market and output o…
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